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Modest vs Piddling - What's the difference?

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Modest is a related term of piddling.


As adjectives the difference between modest and piddling

is that modest is not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble while piddling is insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

As a verb piddling is

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modest

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.
  • Small, moderate in size.
    • He earns a modest amount of money.
    Her latest novel was a modest success.
  • (especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.

    • Synonyms

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    Antonyms

    * immodest

    Derived terms

    * modest proposal * modesty

    piddling

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
    • After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
    The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. — Milton.

    Verb

    (head)